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  • Modern TV, Internet and Social Media News Production
    James J. McCluskey Ph.D.
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    18,65 €

  • Branded Women in U.S. Television
    Peter Bjelskou
    This book examines product placement and brand integration in U.S. television. Using examples from 1950s television sponsorship to The Real Housewives, Bjelskou illustrates how the commercialization of TV programing affects both formats and narratives and how these genres are in conversation with contemporary political and social environments. ...
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    125,38 €

  • Upstairs and Downstairs
    This collection addresses the social and political contexts that have shaped the British TV costume drama as well as the changing historical contexts in which such programs are viewed again and again (in syndication, on DVD, youtube, etc.) and are reinterpreted by a thriving twenty-first-century global fan culture. ...
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    114,94 €

  • Dreams in American Television Narratives
    Cynthia Burkhead
    Dreams in Television Narratives is the first comprehensive analysis of one of American television’s most frequently utilized tropes, the dream. From its beginning, television has been a storytelling medium. Whether delivered to a live audience or played out on a sound stage, narratives and those who write them have always been the crux of the television program. While film can ...
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    64,45 €

  • The Bewitched History Book - 50th Anniversary Edition
    David L. Pierce / David LPierce
    Revised & updated version of The Omni-Directional Three-Dimensional Vectoring Paper Printed Omnibus for Bewitched Analysis a.k.a. The Bewitched History Book.For fifty years the beloved 1960s sitcom Bewitched has been enchanting television audiences. Created at a turbulent time in American history, Bewitched offered a brief respite from the worries of the day. Before now, there ...
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    48,33 €

  • The Bewitched History Book - 50th Anniversary Edition (hardback)
    David L. Pierce / David LPierce
    This is the HARDBACK version of the revised/expanded version of The Omni-Directional Three-Dimensional Vectoring Paper Printed Omnibus for Bewitched Analysis a.k.a. The Bewitched History Book. For fifty years the beloved 1960s sitcom Bewitched has been enchanting television audiences. Created at a turbulent time in American history, Bewitched offered a brief respite from the wo...
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    58,50 €

  • The Villainous Stage
    Marvin Lachman
    Live theatre was once the main entertainment medium in the United States and the United Kingdom. The preeminent dramatists and actors of the day wrote and performed in numerous plays in which crime was a major plot element. This remains true today, especially with the longest-running shows such as The Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables and Sweeney Todd. While hundreds of...
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    71,92 €

  • The British TV Sitcom Quiz Book
    Chris Cowlin
    The sitcom has proved to be one of the most enduring genres in British TV history, reflecting the social changes and national concerns of the time, and has brought many memorable and much-loved characters to our screens. Who can forget iconic figures like Frank Spencer, Basil Fawlty and Reggie Perrin or the antics of the Trotters, the Meldrews and the staff of Grace Brothers’ d...
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    12,14 €

  • Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In
    Ken Feil
    The highest-rated network program during its first three seasons, comedy-variety show Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In (NBC, 1968–1973) remains an often overlooked and underrated innovator of American television history. Audiences of all kinds—old and young, square and hip, black and white, straight and queer—watched Laugh-In, whose campy, anti-establishment aesthetic mocked other t...
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    28,45 €

  • The Makeup of RuPaul’s Drag Race
    Jim Daems
    Start your engines--for the fun, controversy and life lessons of RuPaul’s Drag Race and its spinoff, RuPaul’s DragU. This international collection of original essays critically examines the shows’ representation of drag within the contexts of the reality TV genre and LGBTQ issues. Contributors focus on the structure of the two programs, the subversive nature of drag itself...
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    28,39 €

  • Channeling Wonder
    Television has long been a familiar vehicle for fairy tales and is, in some ways, an ideal medium for the genre. Both more mundane and more wondrous than cinema, TV magically captures sounds and images that float through the air to bring them into homes, schools, and workplaces. Even apparently realistic forms, like the nightly news, routinely employ discourses of “once upon a ...
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    46,04 €

  • Historical Dictionary of African American Television
    Anne Burford-Johnson / Kathleen Fearn-Banks
    This second edition covers the history of African Americans on television from the beginning of national television through the present day including: chronologyintroductory essayappendixesbibliographyover 1000 cross-referenced entries on actors, performers, producers, directors, news and sports journalists ...
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    207,71 €

  • The Making of the Pentecostal Melodrama
    Katrien Pype
    'Pype’s book is a contribution to ’anthropology of media’, an upcoming sub-discipline of cultural studies, and this (but not only this) makes this publication so important.,,[and] inspiring.' · PentecoStudies'By offering a vibrant ethnography of the trajectories of evangelizing TV actors’, their personal ambitions, anxieties, and disagreements with one another, Pype deconstru...
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    44,06 €

  • Where Hollywood Hides - Santa Barbara
    Robert L. McCullough / Suzanne Herrera-McCullough
    There's no business like show business! In 1912, long before Hollywood had a foothold in the world of movies, Flying A Studios opened its doors in downtown Santa Barbara. As one of the earliest studios on the West Coast, Flying A Studios produced more than 1,000 films, which put Santa Barbara on the map as a prominent center for movie magic. The movie business evolved quickly....
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    31,76 €

  • Paul Green’s The House of Connelly
    Paul Green
    One of Paul Green’s best plays, The House of Connelly, was the first play performed (on Broadway in 1931) by the renowned Group Theatre of New York. This book reintroduces the play, and the playwright--famous in his day, but largely forgotten now, although his outdoor symphonic drama The Lost Colony continues to be performed every summer in Manteo, North Carolina. The Hous...
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    58,36 €

  • John Wilkes Booth
    Arthur F. Loux
    By 1865, at the age of 26, Booth had much to lose: a loving family, hosts of friends, adoring women, professional success as one of America’s foremost actors, and the promise of yet more fame and fortune. Yet he formed a daring conspiracy to abduct Lincoln and barter him for Confederate prisoners of war. The Civil War ended before Booth could carry out his plan, so he assass...
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    80,77 €

  • Saturday Night
    Doug Hill / Jeff Weingrad
    Saturday Night is the intimate history of the original Saturday Night Live, from its beginnings as an outlaw program produced by an unruly band of renegades from the comedy underground to a TV institution that made stars of John Belushi, Bill Murray, Chevy Chase, Gilda Radner, Jane Curtin, Laraine Newman, Garrett Morris, Joe Piscopo and Eddie Murphy. This is the book that revea...
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    23,93 €

  • Circle It, Jimmy Fallon Facts, Word Search, Puzzle Book
    Lowry Global Media LLC / Maria Schumacher
    Discover interesting facts about Jimmy Fallon, Troll Dolls, Steve Higgins, The Roots, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Fallon Sketches, and Saturday Night Live. Its all here in one book, complete with Word Search Puzzles. Why just work through lists of words when you can discover interesting facts about Jimmy Fallon and enjoy some stimulating Circle It word search....
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    17,12 €

  • South Park FAQ
    Dave Thompson
    SOUTH PARK FAQ:ALL THAT’S LEFT TO KNOW ABOUT THE WHO WHAT WHERE WHEN AND #%$* OF AM ...
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    21,58 €

  • 15 Minutes With...Forty Years of Interviews
    G. Michael Dobbs / GMichael Dobbs
    Perhaps the first question any journalist has when they land an interview is 'How much time do I have?'Chances are you will have 10 to 20 minutes to speak with someone well known. That’s not much time and it requires writers not only to prepare to use those few minutes wisely but also to be able to improvise,Journalist G. Michael Dobbs has been fortunate to have spoken with doz...
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    27,23 €

  • The Pedagogy of Pop
    This book is a tool for educators at all levels to embrace infusing popular culture into their teaching in ways that both embrace and resist contemporary thinking. Its chapters provide a range of theoretical and practical suggestions—some widely accepted, some somewhat controversial—to elicit discussion and spark creativity amongst all students. ...
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    66,76 €

  • Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition
    This short collection of essays looks at the television show and films produced by the Monty Python troupe from a number of perspectives:Gender studies Post-structuralism Psychoanalysis Cultural studies ...
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    81,01 €

  • Sound Effects
    Robert L. Mott
    This work, first published in 1989, includes discussions of the history of sound effects, the different types of sound effects, creating sound effects from scratch, recording sounds in the studio and field, the advantages of live sounds over tape, knowing why and when to use sound effects, the difference between radio, TV and film sounds, Foleying and the Foley stage, and re...
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    42,81 €

  • Collection Editions
    Damien Buckland
    Collection Editions present 'Top Gear'... The worlds most watched factual television programme. With over 160 car reviews and information, guides to every episode made to date, presenter biographies from the original 1977 series to todays modern masterpiece, History of the UK, US, Russian, Korean & Australian series, track reviews, Power Laps, Star timings & info, and tons more...
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    59,16 €

  • Jeeves & Wooster
    P. G. Wodehouse
    Jeeves & Wooster' - Most enjoyable characters ever invented!Bertie Wooster, a young gentleman with a ''distinctive blend of airy nonchalance and refined gormlessness'', and Jeeves, his improbably well-informed and talented valet. Wooster is a bachelor, a minor aristocrat and member of the idle rich. He and his friends, who are mainly members of The Drones Club, are extricated f...
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    52,06 €

  • I Am Mister Ed...Allan Rocky Lane Revealed
    Linda Alexander
    Allan Lane has been a mystery almost as long as he’s been seen on screen.Some know him as the never officially recognized voice of TV’s famous talking horse, Mister Ed. Others remember him as Red Ryder, the comic book Western hero come-to-life at the Saturday afternoon matinee. And even more remember him as Rocky Lane, yet another Western good guy, and a name which became synon...
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    29,62 €

  • Talking Dirty on Sex and the City
    Beatriz Oria
    Sex and the City (1998-2004) was one of the most popular programs on HBO, spawned two successful feature films in 2008 and 2010, and continues to do well in syndication. This book explores how Sex and the City represents the conventions of romantic comedy in order to create a familiar fictional world of intimacy, gender identity, and interpersonal relationships. Rather than tac...
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    136,16 €

  • Genre and performance
    Christine Cornea
    This book explores how popular film and television genres frame our understanding of on-screen performance. It brings together innovative and inspiring work on this topic from both renowned and newer academics in the field and examines a much neglected area. ...
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    29,67 €

  • How Television Shapes Our Worldview
    Despite the fractured media scape and ideological distortions, the voice from television offers important lessons and ways to understand who we are as humans and how we interact with others, both locally and globally. This book offers a global perspective on how television shapes our perception of the world. ...
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    196,05 €

  • The Language of Doctor Who
    The BBC television series Doctor Who has been a cherished cornerstone of science fiction for five decades. This edited collection provides critical analyses of the series, connecting popular culture and academia through its exploration of the rich intersection of language, literature, and text in Doctor Who. Essays delve into a wide range of topics, from semantics to fandom and...
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    142,73 €